Advanced Practice Nursing: A Comprehensive Guide

By Lucille A. Joel

5th Edition of an AJN Book of the Year Award Winner!

Survive and thrive as an APN! Meet all the challenges of professional practice – whatever your specialty or environment. Noted nursing professionals and educators explore all of the non-clinical roles and responsibilities of an Advanced Practice Nurse and chart a course that enables you to meet them successfully. You’ll follow the evolution of the APNs role from a historical perspective to the present and examine the issues and challenges you’ll encounter in the future.

Access more online. Redeem the code inside new, printed texts to gain access to 26 learning exercises and reference resources.

Updated, Revised & Expanded!

Thoroughly reviewed to reflect advanced practice today

New! Learning exercises to engage students and promote active learning

New & Expanded Coverage!

Difference between a PhD dissertation and the DNP Scholarly Project as the terminal requirement for the DNP degree

Availability/requirements for internships, externships, and residencies and the differences among them

The status of nurses and nursing education across the globe, especially in countries where the APN role is expanding

Recent gains/changes in securing prescriptive authority, and the influence of the consensus model and the multi-state compact

The impact of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Medical Homes, and similar organizations on multidisciplinary practice.

The role of the APN as patient advocate and the role of the patient as decision-maker

Cultivated intuition as the backbone of case management and the role of case management in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and Medical Homes

The role of the nurse as coach

Update to interventions, including aromatherapy, guided imagery, acupressure, acupuncture, yoga, Taiichi, reiki, and therapeutic touch, and their relationship to regulated nursing practice and the consensus model

Covers all APN specialties, including nurse educator and nurse administrator.

Provides the foundational content for all advanced practice nursing students in a course on professional role development.

Presents practical information balanced with theory.

Addresses important topics, including evidence-based practice, the mechanics of teaching, applying the concepts of role theory, serving culturally diverse clients, and effective business practices.

Links content to the AACN/NONPF core curriculum recommendations.

Features figures, tables, and boxes to make reference easier.

Product Details

Publisher : F.A. Davis Company; Fifth edition (February 1, 2022)

Language : English

Paperback : 560 pages

ISBN-10 : 171964277X

ISBN-13 : 978-1719642774

Reading age : 1 year and up